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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1) Costco does not sell 50-pound boxes of spaghetti 2) If you throw a 50-pound box of spaghetti at the wall, nothing should stick. Boxes of spaghetti are full of dry pasta. @npr.org

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@jennbinis.bsky.social you'd love this keynote, methinks. Lots of warning about how AI undermines learning and the importance of metacognition. #AIME-Con

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The first rule of Overexplaining Club is you do not talk about Overexplaining Club because this is a secret club and we want it to stay a secret, but if you talk about it then people will know it exists, thus ruining the secrecy.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's not just a matter of dropping some state-wide exams (two of which they'll need to keep for ESSA purposes) - it's an entire restructuring of assessment, standards, and curriculum across the state. That they haven't figured out yet.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NYS is a non-textbook adoption state. Section 701 of NYS Education (EDN) Law Chapter 16, Title 1, Article 15 explicitly says NYSED can't mandate textbooks (which has come to mean curriculum resources writ large.) So the way the state has ensured consistency against Standards has been the Regents.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I rarely, rarely say or believe that "you don't get it unless you've experienced it" but when it comes to NYS Regents, unless you've gone through NYS HSs or taught at the HS level, it's hard to understand what this shift means. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/n...

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New York Moves Away from Regents Exams for High School Seniors (Gift Article)

A state board authorized phasing out the tests, long viewed as a rite of passage for high school seniors, as a diploma requirement. What replaces them is an open question.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Getting rid of the Regents exams is a mistake. And I say this as someone who is 100% a fan and advocate for the Consortium Schools (who have been mostly Regents free for almost two decades.) They, though, have an entire infrastructure to ensure students are held to the NYS Learning Standards.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let’s be clear. The Clinton administration tried to tell the incoming Bush administration that they would spend more time on Bin Laden than anything else. John Ashcroft, who lost his election to a dead man, decided to focus on pornography instead. About 8 1/2 months later, 9/11. 1/

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Maybe the most important study that I will read this year. Read this thread about it. This has serious implications for one of our basic approaches for judging the genetic component of various things.

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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New paper alert! “Heritability and social interaction in labor market outcomes: Evidence from the population of twins in the United States,” with David Card and Moises Yi, out today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/09/2026

Column by Shane O’Neill: Dolly Parton should be the subject of the next exhibition at the Met’s Costume Institute and the theme of the 2027 Met Gala. I’m not the first to say it. I hope I won’t be the last. wapo.st/3UAC5fA

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Something grim about how the macho men who renamed it “the department of war” also won’t admit they’re fighting a war with Iran.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

www.threads.com/@kenpopehat/p...

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 29/08/2026

I haven't had the time/energy to update Figure 2, which last appeared on Xitter in 2022

Figure showing increasing number of voucher programs in U.S., 2012-2020, and declining selected NAEP scores. Title: "Figure 2. Also a Stats Lie, with Different Conclusions"

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Chrisjet 🇨🇦 @chrisjet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Guess which ones are the American apples and which are Canadian. We're not fucking around 🇨🇦 #Dropthegloves

Apples at a local grocery store on Vancouver Island. The American apples are fully stocked and there are only a few Canadian apples left in stock.

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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another great description "probabilistic next-token generators with adjustable (and watermarkable) weights."

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Teaching elementary school is a very physical job. What is appropriate dress for someone who squats down a lot, sits on the floor cross legged a lot and bends over a lot? What if they also spend time literally running around outside with children?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/08/2026

Anti-trans activists are in uproar in North Carolina. Why? Because an elementary school has hired a trans teacher. Anti-trans activists and Republican elected officials are demanding gendered dress codes for school employees, and for the teacher to be fired. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Anti-Trans Activists In Uproar Over Trans Music Teacher In North Carolina, Propose Gender Dress Code For School Employees

Far-right activists have flooded a local school board in North Carolina for hiring a transgender teacher.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It has always been a mistake to focus on funding as the defining trait of public school schools. The question is whether the community that funds the schools has control over those schools through with Democratic processes. If not, the school is just as private as a military defense contractor.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You are missing the fact that most people suck: don't want to think hard; don't want to emotionally commit; don't wanna challenge their preconceptions; expect others to come up with easy answers and give them solutions on a platter. Most people just don't care to know shit

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Methinks you underestimate the sheer mass of voters who know little and always looking for the next promise of change. Persuading them enough of them to vote for us is the only way to a trifecta—even as ~25-30% of the public are not targets for such efforts.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And when they see those people succeed in ways that they don’t they’re not afraid, they’re angry. Men are not afraid of women succeeding, they’re angry about it. And if they think people who aren’t white are inferior they think they cheated to get ahead

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@atp.fm ATP Brain Teaser: how many episode 34's has ATP published?

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah, but John Ashcroft lost to a dead man. He literally lost an election to a man who had literally died. And so he turned the justice department to investigate pornography, rather than Al-Qaeda's terrorism. We got 9/11 (in part) because John Ashcroft could not defeat a dead man.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@schoolfinance101.bsky.social 1) I actually enjoy using it. Not as good as having immediate an unlimited access to my co-authors at my convenience. But more fun than thinking alone. 1/

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@schoolfinance101.bsky.social The simulation study is designed to...well, your work is the only work I respect as using these unidimensional test scores meaningfully. On the one band, I buy what you are doing around funding adequacy and have DEEP respect for it. 1/

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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Laypeople can't distinguish expert analysis from something merely expert-analysis shaped, and LLM providers exploit this. It's their whole business model, in fact. For those illiterate in the discipline, a list of bullet points cuts off thinking as surely as an actual bullet to the temple.

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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For those who wish to argue that I'm just being mean or hypercritical. First, no! this graph and related products are intentionally deceitful. Second, the purpose of that well funded deceit is to save wealthy taxpayers $$ while endorsing continued harm/deprivation of low income & minority children.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@soapboxsoftware.bsky.social Bug report: If I launch Indigo on my Mac, it does not jump to iPhone's TL position, but instead like 2 hours ago. And then that persists on my phone for days. Like, each time I go to my phone, it goes to 2 hours ago. Even if I've quite Indigo on my Mac, days ago.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

How long have we known that the best way to get better at reading is to read. Practice. Practice, practice, practice. 1/ #NAEPResults

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This looks like a really boring post that is TOTALLY my jam.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Also for the people saying private lives don’t matter. I DNGAF if he sexted people while married unless he’s trying to legislate against it. But if his wife wasn’t cool with it and he lied about it, that speaks to character. Because of the lying part!

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I just went 76-6, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=EYa... Magic. Michael. Charles. Joel. And Evan Mobley

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Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

And Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot said we shouldn't just focus on dysfunction. But Sara, it's a LOT dysfunction.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u... Why is the NYT calling this an anti diversity effort rather than just plain discrimination or racism and sexism

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Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

But isn't God non-binary? Doesn't God have traits of a man and traits of a woman? Does God have testicles? Ovaries? To the extent that gender is real and not just about genitalia, doesn't God span those differences?

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Pope says FACT CHECK YOUR SOURCES

communication depends directly on social trust and, in turn, shapes it. At the same time, truthful information does not aris from
centralized or automated control. In public discourse, the truth of facts has a rational dimension, as it requires verification, cross-checking of sources and responsible argumentation. Moreover, it is deeply relational, built through bonds of trust and shared practices, as well as an honest exchange with others and with the world. Only the shared pursuit of the veracity of facts, perceived as a common good, can provide a solid foundation for just communication.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I am so sick of this logic. Because we don't want to damage the lawn, let's get rid of the lawn— or that part of it. It's just destroying the village in order to "save" it. It's the same logic as Social Security cuts. It's just so dumb. It would remain stunning how dumb these people are.

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Ceolaf @ceolaf.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This whole short thread is excellent, and makes a very insightful point that I had not ever recognized before.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Limit patrons to 1 book challenge per school year. Once the process is complete, that book can't be challenged for another 4 years. I also suggest adding a question about why they think they should be able to determine who gets access to what. Make them write down their fascism. 2/2

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Pushy reminder from one school librarian to another: if you can alter your challenge policy, put a clause in there that prevents people not in your immediate school community (parents, students, staff, board) from placing challenges and limits each request to 1 book at a time. 1/2

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